docs: some extension for flakes users

PR #1655
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Vojtěch Káně 2020-12-13 17:25:45 +01:00 committed by Robert Helgesson
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@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ Currently the easiest way to install Home Manager is as follows:
. "$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh"
```
or this when managing home configuration together with system
configuration
```bash
. "/etc/profiles/per-user/$USER/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh"
```
to your `~/.profile` file.
If instead of using channels you want to run Home Manager from a Git
@ -344,6 +351,10 @@ as follows:
Note, the Home Manager library is exported by the flake under
`lib.hm`.
When using flakes, switch to new configurations as you do for the
whole system (e. g. `nixos-rebuild switch --flake <path>`) instead of
using the `home-manager` command line tool.
Releases
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@ -79,8 +79,14 @@ configuration then you must source the
[source,bash]
$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh
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file in your shell configuration. Unfortunately, we currently only
support POSIX.2-like shells such as
file in your shell configuration. Alternatively source
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[source,bash]
/etc/profiles/per-user/$USER/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh
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when managing home configuration together with system configuration.
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Unfortunately, we currently only support POSIX.2-like shells such as
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/[Bash] or
http://zsh.sourceforge.net/[Z shell].
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